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“I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and will become exactly as well known as they should be—their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to music, anthologized. Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves.” An excerpt from Lydia Davis‘s foreword to Berlin’s A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories is now online.

"Literature offers a way of framing, or reckoning with, the chaos of a universe we can never truly know." The LA TimesinterviewedDenis Johnson about his new novel The Laughing Monsters, an excerpt of which can be read online here.